Poetry
Too Far Away
by Jenny Blackford
for Marjie
The gaps
between your
spoken words
grow wide
as gulfs
between the stars.
Your body’s
going nova.
You’re speeding from me
through bright clouds
of distant
interstellar gas,
a cosmic nursery
thick with shining clots
of baby stars.
No ship
however far or fast it flies
defying Einstein’s mind
will ever find you.
Featured Poet of the Month Jenny Blackford
Jenny Blackford lives in Newcastle, Australia. Her poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Cosmos Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine and more. Award-winning Australian imprint Pitt Street Poetry published an illustrated pamphlet of her cat poems, The Duties of a Cat, in 2013, and her first full-length poetry book, The Loyalty of Chickens, in 2017. The legendary Pamela Sargent called her subversively feminist historical novella set in ancient Greece, The Priestess and the Slave, “elegant”.